The light swept past, and Chen Zimeng was the first to flash into view. Linked Beacon Fire gripped in hand, he looked around—and was instantly stunned.
Ning Qin, Feng Ling, and Zhang Yi appeared one after another. The four of them stared at their surroundings, frozen in place.
Ning Qin murmured, "So beautiful!"
Chen Zimeng stepped forward and took Ning Qin's hand without a word.
All around them was a deep, secluded blue. Countless stars floated overhead, while beneath their feet was nothing but void. Chen Zimeng and the others had somehow arrived in a starry sky, the scenery around them exquisitely breathtaking.
A soft cry drifted over. Chen Zimeng turned his head and widened his eyes. A great fish shining all over with blue light slowly swam through the void. It was faintly translucent, like sunlight beneath the sea, gleaming with a dreamlike blue—graceful, illusory, like something from a dream!
A tidal wave of astonishment surged through his heart. That was... a Kun!
Legend had it that in ancient times, there was a place in the south called Yunmeng Marsh, where a unique people lived. Whenever a boy came of age, he would carry a lamp glowing with blue light and follow his elders to herd a school of Kun living in the void.
They were the Void Herders!
But that was a tale from unimaginably distant times.
The Void Herders had vanished far too long ago. No one knew when it began, but no lamps ever lit up in the void again. No one ever saw a Kun in the void again, nor did anyone see that people in Yunmeng Marsh. All at once, they disappeared completely, as though they had never existed at all.
Until one day, Yunmeng Marsh vanished as well. That dreamlike great marsh simply